Pictures of the Day: Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012

Rows of crosses totaling 16,933 Latin crosses, 164 Stars of David and 3,740 unknowns, dot the 152-acre American Cemetery as U.S. and Filipino WWII veterans and other officials (unseen) commemorate U.S. Veterans Day at the American Cemetery at suburban Taguig city, east of Manila, Philippines Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012.

Gregory Bull | AP

Syracuse plays San Diego State during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game on the deck of the USS Midway, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012, in San Diego. Syracuse won 62-49.

Elaine Thompson | AP

United States Army Sgt. Zach Ames, center, who has been on a one-year deployment to Afghanistan, surprises his wife, Bri Ames, left, and their daughter Emersyn, right, with a reunion prior to an NFL football game between the New York Jets and the Seattle Seahawks on Veterans Day, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012, in Seattle.

Craig Ruttle | AP

People gather on the buckled boardwalk of the Rockaway Park neighborhood of the borough of Queens, New York, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.

Matt Kryger | AP

Firefighters work the scene where an explosion has killed two people and damaged more than a dozen homes in the Richmond Hill subdivision, late Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, in Indianapolis.

Czarek Sokolowski | AP

Police try to secure the area during clashes at the March of Independence to mark Poland's Independence Day, in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012. A Police spokesman says that two officers have been injured in a brief clash with hooligans in which police fired rubber bullets and used tear gas during a right-wing march to mark Polands independence day. Earlier, thousands of people walked peacefully in another march, led by President Bronislaw Komorowski, and in smaller marches backed by various political options. Last year, many police officers were injured and there was damage in the streets when right-wing marchers clashed with opponents and police.

Petros Giannakouris | AP

A demonstrator wearing an anti-establishment Guy Fawkes mask, stands next to riot police that secure the Greek parliament during an anti- austerity rally in central Athens on Sunday Nov. 11, 2012. Greece's lawmakers were set today to pass next year's austerity budget, extending tough spending cuts measures that have already left Greeks struggling as the country tries to slash its debts and pull itself out of a severe recession.